If You've Got a Pack of Chicken Breasts, You Can Make One of These Flavorful Meals
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Chicken breast is one of the easiest ways to get dinner on the table! Sure, we love the flavor that comes from chicken thigh recipes (who doesn't?) and ground chicken recipes are great for healthy meals but chicken breast is the best of both worlds. It's healthy, flavorful, and incredibly versatile. That said, it can also leave us feeling like we're stuck in a rut. If you don't put much thought into it, chicken breast can go from juicy and succulent to dry and bland pretty quickly. Luckily, The Pioneer Woman is here to make sure that never happens with her all-time best chicken breast recipes.
Chicken breast can be used in so many ways. It can be air fried, baked, grilled, or even made in an Instant Pot. You can bread your chicken breast for crispy chicken parmesan or dice it up in a chicken pasta recipe. In fact, once you know how to cook chicken breast, the options are endless. Ahead, you'll find popular chicken dinner recipes like Ree Drummond's lime chicken quesadillas along with hearty soups and a white chicken chili. You can also cook chicken breast and use it as a filling for tacos or a topper for your favorite Greek salad. Get ready to find your new favorite family meal!
Air Fryer Chicken Parmesan
Chicken parmesan is typically a labor of love, but this recipe makes things easy for weeknights by dredging the chicken breast in a mixture of panko breadcrumbs, parmesan, and Italian seasoning, then letting the air fryer do the work. The result is nice and crispy!
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Cajun Chicken Pasta
Anyone who likes a bit of spice will appreciate this creamy chicken pasta made with lots of Cajun seasoning. The blend usually containers a mixture of cayenne pepper, paprika, white pepper, and garlic or onion powder.
Get Ree's Cajun Chicken Pasta recipe.
Chicken Piccata
This 30-minute meal takes boneless, skinless chicken breast to a whole new level with an ultra-creamy sauce made with white wine, butter, and lemon juice. Plus, the capers on top give it a brininess to cut through all the heavy cream.
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Chicken Primavera
Pasta, veggies, and chicken—what's not to love? This spring dish is loaded with flavor and color thanks to asparagus, peas, carrots and cherry tomatoes. Oh, and lots of parmesan cheese.
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Instant Pot Chicken Breast
Adding liquid, like chicken stock, to the Instant Pot along with the chicken breast will create steam and ensure that the meat comes out juicy every time. Best of all, it cooks up in 16 minutes or less!
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Marry Me Chicken
This chicken recipe is so good, it might even cause wedding bells to ring. The key is a dreamy sun-dried tomato sauce that's both creamy and cheesy.
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Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
Everything from the chicken breasts and beans to the veggies gets cooked right in the slow cooker for this easy hands-off soup. It's the kind of meal that you can set, forget, and dig into at dinnertime!
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Chicken Cutlets with Mustard Herb Sauce
To make the cutlets for this easy chicken recipe, all you need to do is start with a full-sized chicken breast! Slice the chicken breast in half horizontally, then sear them in a skillet and top with a flavorful herb sauce that packs a punch.
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Instant Pot BBQ Chicken Tacos
There's nothing dry or bland about this saucy chicken dish. Once the chicken is cooked in an Instant Pot with broth and seasonings, it's shredded and tossed with plenty of smoky barbecue sauce—perfect for serving up in corn tortillas.
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Sheet Pan Cajun Chicken and Corn
Roasting chicken breast in the oven is a great way to cook it, especially when it's made on a sheet pan with veggies. Your whole dinner can be on the table in less than an hour and cleanup is easy.
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Popcorn Chicken
These crispy, crunchy chicken bites are perfect for game day, picnics in the park, or any time you're craving fried chicken. They'll make both kids and adults smile when served with your favorite dipping sauce.
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Chicken Parm Salad
This healthier twist on chicken parmesan takes crispy chicken strips, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella, and serves it over a bed of arugula. The pesto dressing brings the whole thing together.
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Lemon Pepper Chicken
Try your hand at homemade lemon pepper seasoning! It packs a flavorful punch in this zippy chicken dinner.
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Chicken and Asparagus Stir Fry
A good stir fry is meant to cook up quickly so you want to be sure you use quick-cooking ingredients like chicken breast and tender asparagus. Then, serve it over a fluffy bed of rice!
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Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
Give comforting chicken soup a bright and fresh flavor by adding plenty of lemon juice, lemon zest, and fresh dill. Instead of noodles, you can also lighten it up with orzo pasta instead.
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Greek Salad with Chicken
When you're looking for something refreshing yet hearty, a Greek salad with chicken is the way to go! Just be sure to marinate the chicken in red wine vinegar, honey, mustard, and oregano before grilling to ensure plenty of flavor.
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Grilled Chicken Sliders
Cajun seasoning brings a pop of spice to these grilled chicken sliders. But it's the adobo mayo and grilled onions that really takes things over the top.
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Chicken Nachos
You don't need an excuse to make cheesy nachos. When topped with saucy, spiced chicken it's hearty enough for dinner or a game day snack.
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Grilled Chicken with Zucchini Noodles
This easy, low-carb meal pairs simple grilled chicken marinated with lemon juice, mustard, olive oil, and garlic with noodles made from fresh zucchini! It's a dish that you can feel good about eating!
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Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
This chicken chili is one of the easiest meals you can make thanks to the slow cooker. Just toss everything in and let the kitchen appliance do the work! They key is using masa harina, a type of corn flour, as a thickener.
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Barbecue Chicken Salad
Grab your favorite BBQ sauce for this easy and healthy dinner. The smoky flavor will pair so well with the apricot preserves in the baked chicken dish.
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Lime Chicken Quesadillas
Quesadillas are one of Ree's favorite weeknight dinners! And when you fill them with cheese, chicken, and a zesty jalapeño sauce, they'll become your favorite, too!
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